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You do have to remember Burgess is only doing his job by making shark attacks and shark attack deaths disappear. The ocean going public could be in worse shape if Save our Seas and Christopher Neff had anything to do with the ISAF.

The ISAF is losing credibility day by day, there isn’t a person out there that will say any of their figures are correct in person. They use their figures in print because they say they are scientific figures, but one persons opinion (Burgess) is not science that’s why they have to add all those large research group names to the ISAF to make it seem scientific, but no one other than Burgess ever sees the figures or makes any decisions.

In 2008 South Africa recorded 5 attacks (Geremy Cliff) the ISAF lists 0 attacks for the same year.

I agree that losing people to sharks is hard, especially for the families who no longer have a soul mate or a parent etc. But more people die of car accidents, lighting and even people killing people then they do getting eaten by sharks. So as much as I feel bad for the people that this does happen to, we can’t go out and kill or even fully blame the sharks for the deaths. We have to remember that we are in the sharks home and they are not as intelligent as us. RIP the people and sharks who have died due to shark attacks.

Just a point here: For a shark attack fatality to be counted there cannot be any type of human involvement that may have contributed to the incident.

So your people killing people if you apply the same requirements as they do with sharks. This is totally untrue people killing people = 0 deaths.

Your car accidents you need to apply the same requirements if a human was involved in any way in the car accidents they cannot be counted. Also how can you count car accidents, but not count boating accidents.

The lightning is probably true except you need to be location specific. Many areas have shark attack fatalities with no lighting fatalities. Also in order to be correct you can only count those people killed by lighting while there were in the water exposed to the risk of shark attack.

Wow, I guess I didn’t really think about those good points you made. Thanks for opening my eyes and I will further share the information given to me. I do admit I didn’t actually really look into these things as much as I should have. Thank you and next time I’ll do further research before commenting things!

B,
Thanks
I am a 37 years Lemon shark attack survivor – Amputee with 27 years of investigating sharky incidents
Opening others eyes to some other possibilities is something I try to do all the time.

Here in the shark world we really need people to interested to think from all angles to come up with their own thoughts.

Sharks are such a confusing species on the planet, all of us need to think outside the box of our land based experts. My rule of thumb “As soon as you think you have sharks figured out, they will show us we don’t know shit about them”

Tell me you think shark attacks occur when the left side of the planet Venus crosses the East side Jupiter ( most possibly bull) but you have my complete attention.

Tell me the same stuff I’ve heard for 37 years and I know you are a repeater.

This website is not for you if all you’re going to do on it is be rude to people. And I personally like these websites because I want to fully understand why and how theses fatalities happen. So for someone like you who just likes to tell and be nasty at people for posting their opinion and stories and all, you obviously need to go to a different website.

the sharks arent dumb…there in there home…the water…where u want them to go?? ..God bless anyone hurt or killed by one bit its the chance u take goin in the water!!!…people are dumb to say its an animals fault…

Hello everyone.
My name is Abby. I am almost fourteen years old and am doing a science project on shark attacks. I love sharks. I have watched a ton of Shark Week. I have read books. Seen Jaws and Open Water. I have also seen a ton of documentaries, including Sharkwater (which is an amazing movie about shark finning). Some of you may think I’m not old enough to have an opinion. But here it is, and what I have concluded in my “study” of sharks:
They are beautiful. They are important. And they are dangerous. Shark attacks are sad occasions. I’m not one of those so-called shark conservationists who only think about the sharks. No. I imagine what would I do if my mom or dad were attacked and killed. I would cry myself to sleep everynight. It would be hard on me and my siblings. So I understand the victims. I understand the relatives and their sorrow. See, I’m afraid, that on Shark Week, people are merely statistics. But in my project, they aren’t. I’m honoring the people attacked in 2001.
Still. Sharks are an important part of the ecosystem, and we are killing them off in drones because of our stupid technology. Still. Why does the tiger get a large following of conservationists? Because it is cute. everyone thinks “We can’t let the tiger go extinct, it doesn’t do much harm.” In actuality, in a four year study, captive tigers killed seven people, injured 27. In the wild, we have more tiger attacks in India than we do with sharks. Shark attack about 80 people each year, with 5-6 fatal attacks.
When I’m older, I want to study and protect sharks. You may think that us conservationists only care about the sharks. No. Our research is for humans and sharks alike. We hope to protect humans and sharks.
I’m pro-shark. But I’m more pro-human.
I know the haters are going to attack me, but I’m staying with my opinion. Thank you.